If poor people can vote, one of the main things they vote for is to redistribute money to themselves.

Quantum mechanics is confusing and consciousness is confusing, so maybe they're the same.

If you always win, then you're probably doing something wrong.

we talk of plans that are going to happen.we talk of the future, as if we know we will last.there is a sort of comfort in that.

. . . a wind howling began, which seemed to form all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

In our lives and in our careers, whether we are aware of it or not, we are constantly navigating a path by deciding between our deliberate strategies and the unanticipated alternatives that emerge.

All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.

I don't even have kids. But at heart, I'm a kid myself.

It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money.

When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.